Abraham Lincoln Page 8
In the fall of 1864, Abe Lincoln was elected president again. The war was still going on, but now it looked as if the Union would win.
A few months later President Lincoln made his second inauguration speech. He asked the people of the North and the South to forget their bitter feelings. He wanted them to work together to “bind up the nation’s wounds.”
In April, 1865, the war finally ended. Once more the flag of the United States was raised in the South as well as in the North.
Mr. Lincoln was happy that the war was over. He was glad that the Union had been kept. He knew that there were still many problems ahead, but he was sure that they could be worked out. Above all, he wanted all the people in all parts of the country to be treated fairly.
One day soon after the war ended, Mrs. Lincoln insisted that her husband go for a drive into the country with her.
“You are tired, Abe,” she said. “A drive will rest you, and the countryside is beautiful at this time of year.”
The president left the papers on his desk and went to the carriage. Together, he and his wife drove into the country. Abe laughed happily as he watched a robin fly into a tree with a long string in her bill.
“She’s building a nest, Mary,” he said. “And we will build a new nation. The North and the South will be one nation, truly united.”
Mary Todd Lincoln smiled at her husband. She was thinking of the long road he had traveled from the backwoods to the White House.
The little boy who had lived in a little log cabin in a little clearing on a little creek had become one of the greatest men that the world has ever known.
AUGUSTA STEVENSON was a writer of children’s books and a teacher. She wrote many of the Childhood of Famous Americans titles including books about George Washington, Paul Revere, Sitting Bull, Benjamin Franklin, and Molly Pitcher.
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